so true. just reading your comment was enough to make me feel frustrated and anxious.

you can do this pretty easily with bittorrent sync

We use this at work and it's awesome. Solved a lot of big problems and a lot of little problems, like "works on my machine but not prod" and rebuilding your dev env when you switch machines. etc.

The one thing that became a problem was managing vmware (the plugin is a closed source one, so it was hard to debug any issue that came up with it - easily solved by writing our own open source one)

berkshelf makes this a breeze, fyi. I do it for all of my AWS instances

whats "old"? they're pushing 20 years now. that feels pretty ancient in internet time :)

I keep bouncing between "this is an excellently executed troll!" and "…does this actually work?!"

I'm guessing that it either uses absorption spectrography or a motor, two electrodes, a balance, and a large database of mass/conductivity/viscosity data.

Is there anywhere I can go to actually see NASA's (or CSA or ESA)'s "Lessons Learned"?

I'd love to track how they've evolved different characteristics of spaceflight/rovers.

to improve my KSP game, obviously.

Beyond Apollo: http://www.wired.com/category/beyondapollo/

thats terrible. starting in $PWD is the first thing I encountered that I loved about tmux as a multiplexer vs iterm

You can do that in iTerm too. Preferences -> Profiles -> General -> Working Directory -> Reuse previous session's directory

Yeah, I didn't know how much I needed starting at $PWD until I encountered tmux doing it that way.

And now know why it's taken him so long to write each book

when you're scaling any given variable, the stock solution is almost never good enough. you end up hitting all kinds of limits.